That line about update arch base means it is shipping only a year old packages and not 1.5 year old ones.

bravetraveler 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So, depending where you look, more current than $FAVORITE_LTS... with a distribution found on mass-market gaming devices intended for precisely three wrappers. Why do you, presumably a normal user, even care about the packages? Eesh.

As long as Valve provides more snapshot updates in the next six months, I don't see the problem. The ~~TiVo~~ toy is maintaining currency.

I'll concede this might be annoying for the subset that chooses to use a Steam Machine as a server or development workspace, once the product releases. My condolences to this imaginary and small group. They'll be shocked to find immutability, too.

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bandrami 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When you maintain systems long enough you realize that's a feature rather than a bug

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TiredOfLife an hour ago | parent [-]

When it's not based on a rolling disto.

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bandrami an hour ago | parent [-]

Everything's ultimately based on a rolling distro; Debian is frozen from Sid and Fedora (and ultimately RHEL) are frozen from Rawhide.

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		Agreed. Valve is the maintainer, it's no longer 'rolling' by virtue of creating SteamOS and delivering momentary snapshots. Arch is upstream and largely irrelevant to us, the consumers. Ask anyone outside of Valve or strange hobbies which profile is used; they couldn't tell you.
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